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Jim Croce – Operator

Jim Croce – Operator

Jim Croce - Operator
Jim Croce – Operator

Learn how to play Jim Croce – Operator note-for-note on guitar.

Difficulty level: Easy

Barre chords: Yes

Thumb over chords: Yes

Playing Style: Fingerpicked

Tuning: Standard

This lesson teaches the Jim Croce part. The lead guitar part isn’t covered, but unless you’re in a duo that isn’t going to matter.

The complete song lesson contains a lesson video, a performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of approximately 220 Mb containing all the lesson content.

Jim Croce  -  Operator
Jim Croce - Operator
Intermediate - 220 Mb
Price: $0.00

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Jim Croce - Operator Chords & Songsheet
Jim Croce  -  Operator
Jim Croce - Operator
Intermediate - 220 Mb
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You’ll receive at least two videos per song, one lesson and one performance-standard play-through. You’ll receive the chords/lyrics and guitar tabs as PDF files.

The videos are mp4 format and should play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.

They will download as Zip files. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file.

If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.


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Comments

  1. Gene Hargis says

    May 4, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    Jerry,
    I like your arrangements. It’s been a while since I played seriously and these arrangement give me a good work out. Today I down loaded my 3rd song from your site, “Operator” by Jim Croce. I couldn’t find where to pay so I downloaded what I thought was the intro. Not so. I got the whole thing. I want to pay you for your work. What happened?
    Gene Hargis
    [email protected]

    Reply
    • Jerry says

      May 4, 2020 at 7:39 pm

      Hi Gene.
      Thanks, but no need. There are a number of free lessons available on the site and this is one of them.

      Reply
  2. K. Killworth says

    August 16, 2018 at 1:47 am

    Thank you very much for putting these arrangements together. A friend requested that I learn Operator by Jim Croce, so I headed over to your website and there it is. All your music is very well explained and easy to follow.

    Reply
  3. Jonathan Perks says

    May 26, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    Can you aend me the link to Jim Croce’s Operator, please? The links don’t seem to be working as they usually do on my Ipad.

    Reply
  4. DCJ says

    July 20, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    Hi Jerry, What kind of guitar are you playing in this video? It looks to have a nice wide nut-width, which seem hard to find.

    Reply
    • Jerry says

      July 20, 2017 at 8:04 pm

      Hi. It’s a Santa Cruz Model F which has a nut width if 1-11/16

      Reply
  5. Matthew Sharlot says

    July 31, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    I installed both Dropbox and Zip Viewer (free version), but when I tried to download Jim Croce’s Operator, the link in my inbox didn’t go anywhere.
    Thanks for the youtube videos though!

    Reply
    • Jerry says

      August 1, 2016 at 8:27 am

      Hi Matthew
      It’s been downloaded many times on IPhones and iPads using zip viewer so I’m not sure what to say about that. If you have access to a pc you can download it with a click and transfer the PDFs and videos to your iPad.

      Reply
  6. Paul says

    June 1, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    Hello
    The download linked failed

    Reply
    • Paul says

      June 15, 2016 at 2:57 am

      The link was an user error (me !!) Apologies for jumping to soon to comment. This said- wow – what a lesson. I’ve been wanting to tackle this song for some time now. Your explanation of material is fantastic and has got me a far way down the path that ever thought possible !! Thanks again.

      Reply
  7. Raymond D., Poston says

    May 7, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    I truly appreciate both your musical talent and your teaching skills.
    Have you ever considered adding some videos with the other guitar parts, i.e, Murray’s part on this, Red Shae’s and/or Terry Clement’so parts on Gordon Lightfoot’s songs?
    I know I would be very grateful for those.
    Thanks Jerry. Keep on pickin’ and sharring.

    Reply
    • Anonymous says

      August 3, 2016 at 1:07 am

      Maury parts for Croce and Red/Terry parts for Lightfoot would be awesome!

      Reply
  8. Nigel says

    March 14, 2016 at 10:22 am

    Many thanks Jerry, a great song and excellent tutorial.

    Reply
  9. Luciano Diaz says

    February 28, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    Keep getting invalid email address. TRIED TWO DIFFERENT ONES still no good.

    Reply
  10. Tim Baker says

    January 29, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    Jerry, I have repeatedly tried to DL this lesson and keep getting an invalid email address message. My email is vailid. Anyone else experiencing this?

    Reply
    • Ben says

      February 6, 2016 at 8:44 pm

      There’s no problem for me… try another email you or your spouse has and maybe that will work.

      Reply
  11. Dodger says

    June 8, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    Just shows that Brits can play pop guitar too! Great lessons Jerry and well presented. Keep it going, your efforts are well appreciated by the less talented and unworthy.

    Reply
  12. Bob says

    February 8, 2015 at 10:16 pm

    You’ve got a great talent for teaching! Excellent job!

    Reply
  13. Kevin says

    July 29, 2014 at 7:40 am

    We gotta stop meeting like this Jerry!! :)

    I am on a Croce kick lately (James Taylor kick is on hiatus), learned I Got A Name, and looked for my next song, Operator. Lo and behold, there is yet ANOTHER benevolent FREE offering by Jerry, this time for Operator!

    Thanks eternal Jerry, and as always, I’ll show some love and purchase a few more tabs! What a gifted instructor, and a blessing for all!

    I know I’ve already requested Classical Gas, and still will be first in line to buy it, but if I could also be so bold as to request Black Water by the Doobie Brothers, I will also be first to purchase as well. Doobies would be a great subject as there are some incredible fingerpicked pieces that your impeccable instruction would sure be a fine compliment to!! I’ll buy em all Jerry!! :)

    Thanks again my talented cosmic friend!!

    Kevin

    Reply
  14. Richard Wentzel says

    July 7, 2014 at 10:06 pm

    Thanks for you great hints on playing Jim Croce’s Operator(That’s Not the Way it Feels). Your lessons are easy to follow and helpful!

    Reply
  15. Mark S says

    April 22, 2014 at 10:06 am

    Thanks so much Jerry , iv been looking for Jim’s Operator lesson for so long and came across your site , I could not ask for a better teacher very easy to understand and well explained , Thanks Mark

    Reply
  16. Davidg says

    March 21, 2014 at 12:36 am

    Nicely done. Just wanted hear your play through. That a good time for folk type songs. Also like .Can’t you See by Marshall Tucker. Would like to hear you play it.

    Reply

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